Everest Sherpas Pack Up for the Season After Deadly Avalanche

Some Nepalese Sherpas who take paying customers up the world's tallest mountain are quitting for the season following an avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 16 people, including 13 of their own. After the tragedy, the Sherpa community...

"They have decided that compensation is not the only issue, they feel like they have to close down Everest this year as a memorial to those who died,"

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Nepalese authorities say they are meeting with Sherpa mountain guides in an attempt to avert a climbing strike after the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest. Sherpas have threatened to boycott the climbing season after an avalanche ripped through the mountain Friday, killing at least 13 Sherpa guides. Three remain...

KATMANDU, Nepal – Nepal has celebrated the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest and is honoring climbers who followed the footsteps of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Among them is Italian Reinhold Messner who was the...

The journey to the summit of Mount Everest is a challenge that an increasing number have taken on since the summit was first reached in in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Until the late 1970s, only a handful of climbers per year reached the top of the world's tallest mountain, but by 2012 that number rose to more than 500. Explorers are seen in 1922 at Camp II on...

Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- To set foot on Mount Everest is to risk death. Mountaineering tourists and their native Nepali guides both have this on their minds, as they straddle cavernous ravines in the ice. But nothing could have prepared American climber Jon Reiter for last week's avalanche, the deadliest accident in the history of the world's highest peak. "We've all seen...

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Experienced Mount Everest climber and leader of the Alpenglow climbing team, Adrian Ballinger feels that the threat of falling ice is a good reason to cancel the entire season. “That’s ridiculous,” Ballinger said, adding “I would say only a very small percentage of teams canceled due to fear of increased danger in the icefall this season.” The team of Sherpas lost their lives...

Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura (R) poses with his son Gota Miura (L) for photographers during a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2013. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images) An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has set out to reclaim his title as the oldest man ever to successfully summit Mount Everest. According to the Japan Times, Yuichiro Miura departed from Everest's...

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Nepal snowstorm Death toll rises in the Himalayas

At least 39 climbers are now known to have died on a key Nepali hiking route that was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week, according to local officials.
Helicopters are helping rescue teams high in the Himalayas as they search for missing trekkers, with fears that more bodies lie beneath the snow.
Andrew North reports from Kathmandu

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